Product Summary

Air bearing is capable of moving heavy loads of several hundred tons with the minimum of effort. Beside, it can be used in a variety of ways and incorporated into a variety of applications as well as being permanently attached to heavy machines that need moving regularly. Yet, it benefits include high precision, high integrity design solutions, high rotational speed, consistent performance or long life.

Basically, Air bearing uses a thin film of pressurized air to support a load, the same way the puck on an air hockey table "floats" on air. This type of bearing is called a "fluid film" bearing. Fluid film bearings have no solid-to-solid contact under typical running conditions; instead, a film of lubricating fluid (in our case pressurized air) forms a layer between the solid machine elements and serves to transfer forces from one to the other. To compare this with ball bearings, in ball bearings the balls are in constant contact with and form a solid bridge between the machine elements. Also the bearing is separable,and the outer ring and the assembly can be mounted separately.

Typically, Air bearing can be widely applied into the areas of conveyors, pumps, presses, sheaves, automotive, rail, agricultural equipment, rolling mills and so on.